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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 12:56 PM Original message |
Why the pro-torture talking point "You only have minutes before a nuke goes off" is stupid |
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BridgeTheGap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Only those who watch "24" would buy into that crap |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sorry, but the stupidity lies in the notion that waterboarding has EVER yielded actionable intel |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Tell it to Joe Scab |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Maybe he should be waterboarded |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. Besides.... |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. Straight from "24"....its been said lately, |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. If you only had minutes until the nuke goes of, why not just take the pain? |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. you're evil |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. or lie. By the time they figure out you lied, you will be dead |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. Since torture is an unreliable form of extracting information |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. Alan Dershowitz pulls that one out of his ass every time now. |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. Er, how many months of warning did they have before 9/11? |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. OK I am not a scientist or engineer but how would this work. |
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